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Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...you might want to challenge yourself to experience the rewards of greater spontaneity and exchange; if you are an extreme extravert, you might want to teach yourself to undertake a long and lonely project that will ultimately be very rewarding. As human beings, we have the unique ability to look in at our personality from the outside and decide what we want to do with it....
James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision

...Project Wildscreen, 20th – 23rd October 2014 My name is James Honeybourne, I am an Executive Producer at the BBC Natural History Unit. Wildlife television: What got you started? I have always had a passion for wildlife and I was very lucky, when I was 18 I went to Africa to see my uncle, who was living there and he introduced me to a film crew and I just thought it was...
Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...project to create a book he had agreed I should write. What helped me? Daily journaling helped me off load during Alan’s illness. Turning my notes into a book helped me navigate my way through grief. I was also lucky enough to have bereavement support from Marie Curie counsellors and the charity Cruse. I carried on writing in my journal after Alan died, but in the form...
Defining your research methodology
Education & Development

Defining your research methodology

...project is feasible. Start by specifying the physical or digital context of your research. For example, is it in a classroom, lab, health, social care setting or in the field? Will it be conducted online, offline, or both? Then, outline your research methodology, keeping in mind that your research questions will influence the methodology you choose. You will want to...
Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics
Nature & Environment

Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics

...project got underway at Virginia Tech in 2008, and the sequence of a hen named Nici was published in 2010. Nici means “Nicholas inbred,” after famed turkey farmer George Nicholas who, at Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms in Sonoma, California, turned the wild bird into today’s barely recognizable top-heavy product of extreme artificial selection. Conventional...
Brexit and the Irish border
OpenLearn Ireland

Brexit and the Irish border

...introduction I started writing this article on February 1st, 2017, as the House of Commons voted to trigger Article 50 starting the process of withdrawal from the EU. One week previously the UK Supreme Court confirmed that the so-called “devolved nations” of the UK, namely Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, will have no veto on the process of Brexit. The...
Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics

...introduction of universal credit. How did you do the matching? First of all, I never relied on a single source. Some sources are more reliable than others. If all the sources agree, then we can be confident that the two records have matched. If the sources differed, then you would worry. In this specific case the best source to match records is the National Insurance (NI)...
Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...introduction to changes in the heart function found in CLN3 disease, or juvenile dementia. ...CLN3 disease CLN3 disease (also known as Batten Disease) is frequently referred to as a juvenile dementia. This is due to the devastating series of neurological symptoms caused by this disease, which begins to show symptoms in childhood and progresses through the teenage years...